A seat on the UN council would have risked exposing, repeatedly and in full public view, the widening policy gap between the kingdom and its closest ally.
A seat in the UN's topmost council would have risked exposing, repeatedly and in full public view, a widening policy gap between the kingdom and its closest ally.
This section focuses on the ways in which policy actors took advantage of these shifts and widened policy space still further through advocacy initiatives.
This paper examines NHS contracting in England and Wales in 2008-10, atimetime when widening policy differences between the two countries created a natural experiment involving what at face value were respectively 'hard' and 'soft' versions of the internal market.
Importantly, as Figure 1 illustrates, policy makers can widen the policy space they operate within by taking actions to influence the different factors, for example by building consensus or by forming coalitions in support of an issue.
(I17) The previous section has outlined how shifts in context, policy circumstances and policy characteristics leading up to the mid-2000s widened the policy space for family planning.
As the rhetorical gap between the two parties has widened, the policy gap between them has shrunk.
In 1999, the city widened its policy and began impounding the cars of people arrested for driving while intoxicated.
Scottish ministers are planning to formally ban genetically modified crops from being grown in Scotland, widening a policy divide with the Conservative government in London.
He blogs at blogs.bath.ac.uk/edswahs John is director of continuum, the centre for widening participation policy studies at the University of East London He is also director of action on access which is the national co-ordination team for widening participation.
